Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age, Volume I

In 1999 fifty leading scholars of early prehistory gathered in Tübingen for the second international conference on Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Systems. They presented results from recent excavations and developed new hypotheses and theoretical models for the settlement dynamics of this period in which anatomically and culturally modern people evolved. This volume includes 27 of the papers delivered at the Tübingen conference and summarizes the state of our knowledge about the settlement dynamics of this period.

Reviews

As Conard points out in his introduction, "While researchers are still far from the goal of establishing reliable interpretations for Middle Paleolithic settlement systems, the significant advances in recent years provide some basis for optimism and point to new advances in research." Through documentation and discussion of many of these significant new advances, the authors of these chapters have created a useful "state of the art" research statement that does indeed suggest new directions for expanded research.– B. R. Barton, Quaternary Research